delegation

Plural: delegations

Noun

• a group of representatives or delegates
• authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
• An act of delegating.
• A group of delegates.
• A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
• The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)

Examples

• the American delegation

Synonyms

commission, delegacy, delegating, deputation, mission, relegating, relegation

Related Words

consultation link, delegate